[ niúdāogējī ] kill a chicken with a butcher's big knife; great talent used in petty things
Related Translations:
牛刀: butcher's knife 短语和例子割鸡焉用牛刀? why use a butcher's chopper to kill a chicken? -- making unnecessarily great efforts to do trivial things; wasting of talent on trivialities
小试牛刀: try one's hand at; display only a small part of one's talent; make a casual demonstration of one's capability; show sth. of one's ability
